How long does it take to read Welcome to the Universe?
An Astrophysical Tour
Neil deGrasse Tyson, J. Richard Gott, Michael A. Strauss, Michael Butler Murray, Richard Gott, Francisco Manuel Vázquez Carracedo
Welcome to the Universe by Neil deGrasse Tyson, J. Richard Gott, Michael A. Strauss, Michael Butler Murray, Richard Gott, Francisco Manuel Vázquez Carracedo takes about 8 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 35 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2016. 468 pages, about 128,700 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all--from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel. Describing the latest discoveries in astrophysics, the informative and entertaining narrative propels you from our home solar system to the outermost frontiers of space. How do stars live and die? Why did Pluto lose its planetary status? What are the prospects of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? How did the universe begin? Why is it expanding and why is its expansion accelerating? Is our universe alone or part of an infinite multiverse? Answering these and many other questions, the authors open your eyes to the wonders of the cosmos, sharing their knowledge of how the universe works.Breathtaking in scope and stunningly illustrated throughout, Welcome to the Universe is for those who hunger for insights into our evolving universe that only world-class astrophysicists can provide.--Publisher description
Subjects: Popular works, Relativity (Physics), Stars, Cosmology, Cosmology--popular works, Stars--popular works
